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Farm practices that increase crop yields : the Gulf Coast region

by: Crosby, M. A

Publication date: 1918

Topics: Crop yields, cropping systems, crop yield, crop rotation, crop management, plant cultural practices, cover crops, green manures, intercropping, legumes, soil management, soil conservation, erosion control, tillage, soybeans, Kummerowia striata

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

Collection: usda-farmersbulletin; usdanationalagriculturallibrary; fedlink

Contributor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Language: English

Rights: The contributing institution believes that this item is not in copyright.

Volume: no.986

Item Size: 19.7M

28 pages : 23 cm

"Gulf Coast region upland soils are ordinarily deficient in nitrogen and need to be supplied with liberal quantities of organic matter if profitable crop yields are to be produced. This condition is most easily and cheaply remedied by growing such legumes as velvet beans, cur clover, crimson clover, hairy vetch and beggar weed, and by carefully utilizing all farm manures, crop residues, and other sources of humus. By a simple readjustment most of the cropping systems followed in this region may be made to include one or more legumes which ill in crease the supply of nitrogen and humus in the soil and greatly increase crop yields. Systems by means of which crop yields are being increased in the region are discussed in the following pages."--Page [2]

Cover title

Economic conditions -- Practices in increasing corn yields -- Crops for soil improvement -- Commercial fertilizers -- Cropping systems -- Inter-cropping -- Winter cover crops -- Crop rotations